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Robo Prize a clamed PRIZE VALUE of Millions of Dollars. The idea of offering prize-money to help advance technology is not new. Throughout history, prize money has motivated people to achieve great things. Lindbergh would not have been the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic if it wasn't for the prize money. In fact, that was said to be one of his main motivating factor!
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Now knows how to navigate around people in work areas, a seemingly simple, yet complex task. It can also share and coordinate tasks with other Asimos and dock itself at the recharge station as needed. These abilities enable the Asimo to be more autonomous in a workplace and bring it one step closer to replacing actual humans. Honda developed an intelligence technology that enhances smooth movement by enabling ASIMO to choose between stepping back and yielding the right-of-way or continuing to walk based on the predicted movement of oncoming people. Honda also developed a new intelligence technology related to ASIMO’s ability to perform tasks such as carrying a tray and pushing a cart. Furthermore, a new comprehensive system was developed so that multiple ASIMOs can share tasks by adjusting to the situation and work together in coordination to provide uninterrupted service. For example, if one ASIMO is idled while recharging, other ASIMO robots will step in and perform assigned tasks.ASIMO identifies oncoming people through its eye camera, calculates traveling direction and speed, predicts forthcoming movements of oncoming people, and chooses the most appropriate path so that it will not block the movement of others. When there is not enough space, ASIMO will step back and yield the right-of-way. (newlaunches) |
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Robotics Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots
Build an inexpensive, reconfigurable maze for robot projects
Insectronics : Build Your Own Walking Robot
Technology Student computer control
Control Engineering Virtual Library
Robotics Labs (Links to Robot related websites)
FIRS
LEGO League International Schools' robotics competition.
e-puck (EPFL Robot), Educational Robots
Robots
at LiveScience.
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Google X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. Google Lunar X Prize
FIRST Robotics
Competition (FRC) is a unique
varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people
discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can
be.
Issac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround",
although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following:-
A
Robot Bill of Rights. (Ethical code for robots in works).
Ethics
for the Robot Age - Should bots carry weapons? Should they win patents?
Questions we must answer as automation advances. View by Jordan Pollack. Wired
Magazine (January 2005; Issue 13.01). "My definition of a robot is any
device controlled by software that can work 24/7 and put people out of work. The
machines are not intelligent. ... In case you missed them, today's most popular
robots are ATMs and computer printers. While our hopes for and fears of robots
may be overblown, there is plenty to worry about as automation progresses. The
future will have many more robots, and they'll most certainly be much more
advanced. This raises important ethical questions that we must begin to
confront. 1. Should robots be humanoid? ... 2. Should humans become
robots? ... 4. Should robots eat? ... 6. Should robots carry
weapons? ..."
A new set of laws has been proposed to govern operations by killer robots. (PDF
format), The ideas were floated by John S Canning, an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, Dahlgren Division – an American weapons-research and test establishment. Mr Canning's “Concept of Operations for Armed Autonomous Systems”.
The last but one Talking
Robots episode interviews Henry Markram, who is
directing the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the
mammalian brain in the Blue Brain Project. Using IBM's
Blue Gene supercomputer Markram's team has reverse engineered and
simulated a neocortical column composed of 10'000 neurons with more than
30 million synapses. Future robots may use the Blue Brain to build
internal models or to allow us to understand and track spatial learning.
Markram believes that robots as they are built today will always have
fundamental limitations, because they are not able to capture many of
the neural processes that the brain uses. In his view complex neural
processes are essential in allowing brains to be flexible. For more
information on the last but one Talking Robots interview listen in. To conclude the
Talking Robots series, you are also warmly invited to share your
concerns, hopes and visions for the future of robotics. To make yourself
heard in the final Talking Robots episode, send us your text or audio
message before May 22nd at talkingrobots@gmail.com.
Chris Myers has posted
some photos
of a tentacle arm he is working as well as link to a story on CMU's
CardioArm robot. Want more snakebots? Kikiat sent us a TechCrunch
video
of another CMU snake robot climbing a pole. Fiona Gatt of VIA Arena
sent a link to their review
of the Lynxmotion Johnny 5 robot with lots of photos and video. Ben Goertzel posted an essay
in his blog about the possibilities of combining the iCub open-source hardware humanoid
robot with existing free open source software (FOSS) applications
such as Gazebo, OpenSim, and OpenCog. The Swirling
Brain sent links to
an ESA
story on the use of AI in the Mars Express space probe, and video
of a full-size animatronic version Disney's Wall-E robot roaming the
streets in LA. Roland Piquepaille sent links to his latest blog posts on
a new taste sensor
for robots, UAVs that
will study smog in California, the Microtransat robot boat race, and a
robot chef.
Finally, if you're a company looking for robot-related promotional swag,
Rog-a-matic noticed
these cute
little robot thumb drives. Know
any other robot news, gossip, or amazing facts we should report? Send 'em our way please.
An interesting Edge
article by Michael Gazzaniga ponders the questions of whether humans
brains are unique among animals and, if so, what makes them unique. Are
the neurons in human brains different from those in other animals? Is
the wiring different? Is it just the size of the brain that matters? Do
comparative neuroanatomy
studies shed light on whether or not findings from rat and monkey brains
can be extrapolated to human brains? Most interesting of all are recent
genetic findings that reveal unique changes appearing at key points in
our cultural evolution
37,000 years ago with the rise of modern humans and 5800 years ago with
the rise
of agriculture. There are also signs of continuing accelerated evolution in
genes responsible for brain structure in humans. All of this is
particularly interesting when considered in relation to the attempts to
replicate human mental capabilities in robots. Michael
Gazzaniga is professor of Psychology and directory of the SAGE
Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California Santa
Barbara.
Robot Boats Prepare for Trans-Atlantic Challenge
Robots entering the 2008 Microtransat
competition will set sail on the Atlantic Ocean from Viana do
Castelo, Portugal sometime after September 29. Hopefully at least one of
the robots will make it to the finish line, located between 10 degrees
and 25
degrees North and 60 degrees West. A TimesOnline
article offers more details on the race and some of the robots. One
robot, the
Beagle B, generates 30 watts of power from solar panels to power an
array of sensors, actuators, and 400Mhz Gumstix CPU running Linux. Other
competitors include the FEUP Autonomous
Sailboat with its composite hull designed by a Portuguese kayak
builder, the Mark III
Roboboat from the United States, and the Shoogle Nifty II
from the UK.
A CNN
Technology article described Rocky, a robot squirrel being used by
researchers to study squirrel behavior in the real world. Rather than
observing squirrels in an artificial lab environment, Sarah Partan of
Hampshire College and other researchers are using robot squirrels to
study the
animals in the natural environment. Scientists hope to learn more about
squirrels communication techniques, social cues, and survival instincts.
In additional squirrel-droids, the article mentions other cases where
robots are being used to study
real animals in the wild including an intimidating robot lizard and
promiscuous robot cockroach. The article doesn't mention whether Rocky
has a built-in cell phone like the last robot squirrel we
covered.
Envisioning Robots with Eyes of a Fly
Fiberoptic vision
sensors developed by the Naval Air Warfare Center
and the University of Wyoming, inspired by the eye structure
of the common houseflies, might improve operation of future robots.
The analog eyes along with their parallel processing system are very good
at locating edges of tiny objects, and creating a view of the object even
beyond the resolution of the detectors. As the object moves
across the sensor, edge transitions effectively adds resolution to the
information.
Applications for the sensor with its 1mm ball lens include medical,
industrial, defense, and commercial robots.
We've see super-tiny grippers before, but the
ultra-super-tiny gripper developed by
Yu Sun of
the University of Toronto in Canada moves to the next level.
Not only can it grasp individual objects just 10 micrometres across,
it also exerts a tiny, yet controllable force of as little as 20
nanoNewtons using feedback. The result is the ability to grab tiny
items and not damage them in the process. This comes in handy when
manipulating living cells that are deformed or damaged easily when
man-handled. The microscopic gripper can also detect objects it bumps
into allowing software to autonomously close in on them for manipulation
faster and more accurately than manual control by a human could.
Unlike many other exotic advancements, these tiny tweezers are also
easy to manufacture by standard silicon etching processes resulting in a
production quantity price of only $50.
Environmental Risk Assessment Rover-AT
How far are you from a Superfund site or Nuclear power plant?
How many chemicals are in human breast milk?
Well, you need a ERAR-AT V1.0 -
Environmental Risk Assessment Rover–AT to find out, aggregate the
threats, and help you understand the riskiness of contemporary life.
While difficult to call a robot due to its lack of self-mobility,
ERAR-AT looks ripe for upgrades with a couple of synthetically
lubricated gear motors,
a ROHS-compliant H-Bridge, and a hexavalent chromium-free drive train.
After all, it already has key components of robotification including
a solar power system, GPS, and vast array of sensing elements.
ERAR-AT can also project video of fourteen-tiered threat levels
onto natural and architectural surfaces in a similar way as R2D2
spilled the beans with that Princess Leia Hologram trick.
This question stands out among the many asked:
"Why has modernity, which was supposed to create a sense of
security,
produced more anxiety and threats than ever?
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Sylvain Calinon writes, "I am a postdoctoral fellow working on
humanoid robot and imitation learning, at the Learning Algorithms and
Systems Laboratory (LASA), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Switzerland. We just posted some videos of our work on Youtube,
showing a humanoid robot learning to whip egss, cut ham and grate cheese
to do an omelet." There are two videos, a short version and
a long version.
You can read more about Sylvain's work
on his website. The work is designed to allow robot learning by
imitation using a three phase approach: demonstration, modeling, and
reproduction. A number of research papers are
available if you want to learn more about their approach. This work
is being done at the EPFL Learning
Algorithms and Systems Lab.
Fluidhand: Prosthetic or Robotic Advancement?
An 18 year old patient at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg
is the first to test the Fluidhand prototype and compare it to the i-LIMB.
The hand has a large contact area and a soft interface giving it greater
grasping ability and a more life-like action.
Actuators are mounted in the fingers instead of in the wrist eliminating
the power transmission systems normally required for artificial hands.
Beyond the intended prosthetic application, one has to wonder if this
type of technology will eventually be recruited for robotic applications
where having human-like qualities could improve the acceptance and
functionality
of an otherwise cold machine.
Sorry for the news slowdown, folks! The editor mailbox is filling up
fast. First up is an announcement from Trossen Robotics of their new chat
rooms (don't forget the robotics IRC group is still
out there too). Markus
Waibel sent links to info on the Navy's
$1.16 billion robot aircraft program, a gizmodo article on a flexible
wing, crawling micro-drone, and engadet posts about the Quadrotor
Aeryon Scout and the Caltech fruit
fly flight simulator. From the Swirling Brain come links the creepiest
robots around, swarming
Belgium bots, an update
on the O Terrill bum
bot - it's being criticized by homeless advocates now, robot
jellyfish (with video), a concept for a futuristic
clear cut robot (to stop fire, not destroy rain forests,
hopefully!), and a DARPA
award to Boeing for development of an ultra-long endurance UAV that
can maintain a stationary position above a target for as long as five
years. Neil Shurley let us know that he's started a new blog called This Week in World Robot
Domination. Kevin Prescott of ITC results writes, "I thought you
might be interested in a couple of our recent robotics research
articles, both about EU-funded research projects." He includes links
to an article on the MACS
project and RoboCup.
We have two new blog posts from Roland Piquepaille, one on a robot crab built from Lego
Technic bricks and one on those robot jellyfish
mentioned by the Swirling Brain. Finally, Mark Miller sent a link to an
assortment
of videos he made using his android prototypes, for anyone who needs
a little robot humor. Know any other robot news, gossip, or amazing
facts we should report? Send 'em our way please.
In the latest Talking
Robots podcast we interview Yoky Matsuoka, head
of the Neurobotics
Laboratory at the University of
Washington in Seattle. Combining robotics with neuroscience,
Matsuoka has constructed an Anatomically
Correct Testbed hand (ACT) using passive compliant materials coupled
with simple control algorithms rather than traditional materials. Apart
from serving as a testbed for scientific studies of the neuro-control of
movement, Matsuoka is also working on future applications in
tele-manipulation and prosthetics. For more on this and other projects
conducted at her lab listen
in. John Palmisano of the Society
of Robots writes, "I just
wanted to tell you about the recent MOBOT contest at CMU last
weekend as potential interesting news.
I competed in MOBOT 2008
at CMU last Friday. I got up two
competition
videos I figured were worth posting. C|net
also reported on it (My robot is on page 6 and 11). The documentation
on my robot includes video and the final score at the bottom of the
page. And within the next day or two, the CMU newspaper should also have an
article on
it." (and another
article)
Jonathon Yule, a freelance designer studying at the York/Sheridan
Bachelor of Design program in Toronto, shows off his keen interest and
talent in typography
with Font Bots - a robotic artform created from a collection of
everyday letters.
T-Shirts
have not escaped the mighty Helboticia.
LinuxDevices.com reports that SigmaTel has
released an ARM9-based System-on-Chip aimed at Linux-based personal
navigation devices but it looks like it would be ideal for robots as
well. To help reduce the cost of handheld devices, SigmaTel added
a NiMH/Li-ION battery charger, boot ROM, power management, audio
circuitry, and other goodies. The SoC is also designed to easily
integrate with several popular GPS chips including Broadcom, SiRF, and
NXP. All the usual I/O
ports are available too: LCD, FLASH interface, S/PDIF, GPIO, UARTS,
timers, even some ADCs. If you weren't aware, SigmaTel is also in the
process of being
acquired by Freescale.
Talking Robots: Henry Markram
Are Humans Brains Unique?
Rocky the Robot Squirrel and Other Robot Animals
Ultra-Super-Tiny, Sensitive Gripper Developed
Robot Chef Learns to Make an Omelet
Random Robot Roundup
Report on 2008 MOBOT Race
New SigmaTel ARM9 SoC Looks Ideal for Robots
MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. (Quite a few mini-robots to build in a weekend.)
| Make a Reprap Robot Part 1: The Electronics - Weekend Project Podcast | Make a Repstrap (Part 2) - Weekend Projects Podcast |
Reprap foundation or make your own since the whole project is open source. (More Computer Numerically Controlled, CNC Links)
Mill Engine. Engineering and Mechanical Portal. Engineering links, Mechanical links, engineers, machines, engines. Civil Engineering, architecture, construction, transportation, etc...
Search for Robotics related links on A Science Portal. Ideal for Science Projects. Links to cutting edge science related web sites. Cutting edge science. Research and breakthroughs using State of the Art and discovery's of new sciences, physics, cosmology, the Universe, power sources, control units, memory devices, displays, portable computers, nanotechnology, organic, biological, medical, neurology, mobile, portable, WAP, G3, electronic, etc. Earth science, engineering and bandwidth solutions. Robotics, gadgets, chemical and telecommunications. Social, psychology and politics. A look at the future?
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Robots
Jeff's All Things Robot (lots of) links
Robotics (plenty of them) links Even More Robotics (plenty) Links
Robot Maker Includes Micro and Nano Class Geared Motors
Used Robots Integrator of Used Industrial Robots. Robot Resources:
Dr. Rrobot Inc., is a developer and manufacturer of mobile robotics technology, providing autonomous robots solutions tailored for commercial and industrial security, monitoring and inventory applications.
T. R. I, Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies for human-robot collaboration in education, toys, entertainment and art. (Don't underrate because of the work Toy)
RoboGames (Formally ROBOlympics), is the world's largest open robot competition. We invite the best minds from around the world to compete.
Open Directory - Computers: Robotics: Building
Robot Haven A Refuges for Robots.
Robot Group TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art. Through the synergy of fusing art and technology.
Triangle Amateur Robotics (TAR) is dedicated to creating personal robots for fun and knowledge. (North Carolina State University campus)
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Robodance 4 works with i-Sobot and Wiimote Robosapien Dance Machine. MAKE: Blog pal, and author of Robodance, Robert Oschler, is in the process of updating this free Robosapien control program so that it can also work with the new Tomy i-Sobot, using the IR connection on the robot and the Nintendo Wii remote controller (Wiimote). This video offers a sneak peak of Robodance 4's capabilities. |
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Obstacle Avoiding Walking Robot) This Instructable shows how to make a little walking robot which avoids obstacles (much like many commercially available options). But what's the fun in buying a toy when you can instead start with a motor, sheet of plastic and pile of bolts and proceed to build your own. Well I hope you share this attitude and please enjoy. |
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HOW TO - Build a robot arm (robot arm clock videos)
Society of Robots has a great video of a robot arm-clocks The robot arm is probably the most mathematically complex robot you could ever build. As such, this tutorial cant tell you everything you need to know. Instead, I will take shortcuts and just talk about the bear minimum you need to know to build an effective robot arm. Please bear with the math . . . enjoy!To get you started, here is a video of a robot arm assignment I had when I took Robotic Manipulation back in college. My group programmed it to type the current time into the keyboard . . . (lesson learned, dont crash robot arms into your keyboard at full speed while testing) HOW TO - Build a robot arm Link. |
Robotics fairs and exhibitions
Robots Dreams Robot Video's Robots Resources
Botjunkie:- Everywhere except here in the states, Micromouse competitions seem to be big news. The premise is simple: autonomous little mousebots try to find their way to the center of a maze. In practice, this can be a tricky task to do quickly and efficiently. The mouse has to be able to detect walls, make decisions [...]
Bots Create Art From Toothbrushes
Vibrobots are pretty squirrelly little guys, easy to make by yourself and fun to watch. BrushBots are a sort of super-sized vibrobot, with multiple toothbrush “legs.” Stick them in a paper floor arena with some drops of paint, and watch them create a piece of artwork for you:
[Direct Link]
Designed by Christian Cerrito, BrushBots are simple, [...]
Just a few days after I posted a YouTube video of some b-roll of Honda’s ASIMO conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Honda has gone live with their very own YouTube channel. There’s some interesting stuff on there, including this video of ASIMO showing off at the Kennedy Space Center:
I guess it’s pretty obvious that the [...]
RoboGames 2008: Buy Your Tickets Now (Or Be Enslaved)
Smell that? It’s the scent of oil, fried speed controllers, and battery acid. And it means that RoboGames is now only a month away. The world’s largest open robot competition will be taking place at the Ft. Mason Center in San Francisco from June 13-15 (Friday through Sunday). Did I mention it’s the world’s LARGEST [...]
He may not be doing the job he was designed for down in Los Angeles, but this (lifesize?) animatronic Wall-E robot is wandering around anyway, doing what he does best: being cute and charming. Take a look:
[Direct Link to Vid]
Apparently, these Wall-Es are being purpose-built for Disney parks, and there will be one of them [...]
ASIMO Conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra
It’s not too often (yet) that a group of humans takes orders from a robot. But if we’re going to obey one, it may as well be one developed and owned by a major corporation. Last night, Honda’s ASIMO directed the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a performance of “Impossible Dream,” and it managed not to [...]
Alright, with everything that’s been going on with Pleo in the last week, it’s high time for a disgustingly cute Pleo video. And we’ve got one for you… Here’s Pleo exploring Sea World; make sure to stick around until at least two minutes in:
This particular Pleo is named Pixie, and it seems like she’s something [...]
Wall-E’s Eve: Designed By Apple?
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine commented that Eve, Wall-E’s girlfriend, looked kinda like an iPod. I didn’t agree, not so much because I couldn’t see the resemblance, but mostly because I didn’t want to admit that Apple may have some subtle influence over the design of a major character in a Pixar [...]
Over the weekend, I stopped by RoboExoticUS, a cocktail robotics festival with Austrian origins and a thriving and mostly functional contingent here in San Francisco. Why cocktail robotics? Besides the obvious (robots + booze = awesome), RoboExotica is billed as “an index for the integration of technological achievements in everyday life, and as a means [...]
Video Friday: X-47B On FutureWeapons
We’ve written about the X-47B UCAS a few times here on BotJunkie, but for some reason, we haven’t been able to manage the same level of access as the Discovery channel. Sigh. At least we can enjoy the videos that they produce:
Part 2, after the jump.
Mechanical Micro Mice Manage Massive Mazes
ASIMO Does A Really Bad Robot
Animatronic Wall-E Fails To Clean Up LA
Video: Dolphins
RoboExoticUS: Cocktail Robotics
Feild Robotics Center the future of field robotics by creating automated work machines for land, sea, air and space.
TeleRAD is a radiation survey robot. The name stands for distance Radiation Absorbed Dose or in other words detecting radiation levels remotely. TeleRAD uses a Geiger counter to detect radiation levels.
Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots. investigate collaborative coverage with a self-organizing swarm of minimalist robots. The inspection of the compressor section of a (jet) turbine engine is a motivating case study (see IROS'06 and BSSAC'07 for a high-level overview).
Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference
Your first robot - the beetle robot
How to build your first PICAXE robot
Total Robots Total Robots BEAM. The term BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics and Mechanics. BEAM robotics was invented (and is patented) by Dr Mark W. Tilden whilst he was a student at University in Canada. Includes OOPic.
How-To: Build BEAM Vibrobots The key to Vibrobot movement is a motor (or motors) that employs an unbalanced weight. Pager and other motors used to create vibration alerts in consumer electronics use this technique. As the motor shaft spins, the weight on the shaft, being off-kilter, makes the motor, and therefore the entire pager, vibrate. Hook such a motor up to a little robo-critter with four fixed legs, and when the motor fires and the weight starts spinning, the bot will skitter across the floor.
BEAM robotics is the brain child of Mark W. Tilden who is currently working at "Los Alamos National Laboratory" in Los Alamos, New Mexico, US. BEAM robotics as described in the BEAM rule book: 1/: A description of what aspects a roving robot creature could contain. BEAM is a triple acronym which stands for:-| Biology | Electronics | Aesthetics | Mechanics |
| Building | Evolution | Anarchy | Modularity |
| Biotechnology | Ethnology | Analogy | Morphology |
A Beginner's Guide to BEAM - The BEAM design approach creates nimble robots from simple components, with no programming required.
Robolympics Gallery (BEAMBots)
Slarbotics offers competition robot kits, solar-powered robots, books, electronic components, motors, parts and information on the expanding field of BEAM Robotics. Enjoy our website, and we welcome your comments.
Solar Powered Picaxe Microbot (Vibrobot) This microbot is also called a vibrobot because it vibrates in order to generate horizontal motion.
Solarbotics is a BEAM robotics community server. Complete BEAMbot Circuits BEAM From the Ground Up
A Beginner's Guide to BEAM (Makezine)
Build a Simple Vibrobot:- Items required for the Simple Vibrobot:- Connect these twisted motor wire ends to the battery wires. Place some BluTack on to each motor bottom and stick to the PP3 Battery. Plug the PP3 connector to the battery. Unplug to stop.
HOW TO - Make a Bristlebot a tiny directional vibrobot made from a toothbrush! The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot
with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager
motor. The result? Serious fun. The BristleBot is our take on the popular
vibrobot, a simple category of robot that is controlled by a single
vibrating (eccentric) motor. Some neat varieties include the mint-tin
version as seen in Make Magazine (check the video), and the kid's art bot: a
vibrobot with pens for feet. Robot
Arm With Fluidic Muscles. Airic's_arm is a robotic arm inspired by your own
arm. The company describes it as a "combination of mechatronics and the
biological model of a human being." The mechanical foundation - the
"skeleton" - of Festo's Airic's arm is literally a metal
version of the human skeletal structure. The radius and ulna (primary bones
of the forearm), the metacarpals (hand and fingers) and the shoulder and
shoulder blade are duplicated Bittybot help you make smaller robots.
Robot Education. The Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) applies and evaluates robots as a context for computer science education.
Spider Robot Project Page An 'in-progress' project involving the addition of a PIC micro brain to a small
robot.
PIC Guide
(With Links) Proton
Geeks Proton PIC Users Group PICAXE
microcontrollers are exciting, low-cost, re-programmable chips that can be used
as low-cost 'brains' in many kinds of electronic project. For further
information browse the index bar on the left hand side of the screen. PIC
& Electronic Development on a Shoestring ooPIC, (Object-Oriented PIC), is a different approach in microcontrollers
that uses objects to control the attached hardware while the application program focuses on controlling the objects. Programmed in Basic,
C, or Java
syntax styles. Uses Object-oriented concepts. More Object
oriented programming links. A iRobot
Create-mounted dot-matrix printer. The Create is essentially a Roomba
without the vacuum. This allows us to add a greater payload and gives us
convenient mounting holes. Doctronics
Design & Technology and Electronics Resources. Discovering
PICs Mozomsite
Covers PIC Microcontroller.
Stepper Motors. Semiconductors Fundamentals, etc... 74194
Stepper Motor Driver form Model
Railroad & Misc. Electronics More Electronics Manage
5 stepper motors for the LPT signals step-dir Automatically Translated from
Russian
OpenServo is an open
community-based project started by Mike Thompson with the goal of creating a
low-cost digital servo for robotics. AiboPet and other 'Pets (robotic or otherwise)
TeRK. (Telepresence
Robot Kit), Educational Robotics - Vehicles for Teaching and
Learning.
OrionRobot Robotics
resource and community website. There is a great deal of technical, creative and
background information on robotics for hobbyists and even those more
experienced. Some areas of the site also form a dictionary for some of the terms
and concepts used in robotics, electronics, programming, Lego building and
engineering.
Foxbox.Nl
:: Lego Mindstorms
Robots And Machines. A lot of Lego Mindstorms Robotics Projects.
EURON ( European Robotics
Research Network). It is a community of people with a common
interest in working to make better robots.
International Federation of
Robotics
Robot Matrix This portal is all about robots/robotics. It delicates to all who are interested in the development of robotics - from beginners to professionals, manufacturers, suppliers, direct end users and even researchers.
A comprehensive web portal on robotic technology. It contains both commercial and non-commercial information on robotic technology. More importantly, we always welcome useful user input, feedback or contributions in terms of publish useful articles on Robotics technologies in the portal.
Humanoid
Robots.
Telepresence Robotkit Educational
Robots Vehiculs for teaching and learning.
Carl Kenner's Home Page. Programmable Input Emulator
(GlovePIE or PIE). Control Games with Gestures, Speech, and Other Input Devices! With GlovePIE you can now play any game, or control any software or MIDI devices, using whatever controls you want. This includes joysticks,
gamepads, mice, keyboards, MIDI input devices, HMDs, Wiimotes, trackers, and of course, Virtual Reality gloves!
Ted
Larson (Balancing Robot and other links).
Surveyor
Corporation Surveyor SRV-1 Wireless Mobile Robot with
Video for Telepresence, Autonomous and Swarm Operation.
RoboCup is
an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is
an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a
standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and
examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research,
aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and
industries.
Robothon
a national event that showcases the capabilities and technological developments
in robotics from the amateur robotics community. At this event, people from
around the world come together to present new robotic technologies, share ideas,
meet fellow robotic enthusiasts, show off their robotic creations, and compete
in many robotic competitions and activities.
Bryan's
Robotics Journal Robotics without the soldering iron.
Converting
a Floppy Disk Drive into a Simple Robot Generation5
aims to be the most comprehensive Artificial Intelligence site on the Internet.
Community-orientated, Generation5 deals with all AI topics including robotics,
neural networks, genetic algorithms, AI programming, home automation and much
more. Robots
wanted Any condition, any type... ROBOTS WANTED: Dead or Alive, Whole or
Parts, Please help the virtual robot museum grow! Some of the Robots that I am
interested in: HeathKit (HERO JR, HERO 1, HERO 2000, Arm Trainer), Androbots (Topo,
BOB, BOB/XA, Fred, and Androman), RB5X, Artec GEMINI, Omnibots, Rhino Robots,
MAXX STEELE, NEWTON SynPet, Comro Tot, Marvin Mark I, RoPet, Servitron, ELAMI,
CYBER I, HUBOT, Hearoid, Turtles, Etc. Also looking for Robot accesories and
technical literature. Please don't throw that old Robot away! Robotic
Gallery Hobby
Robotics. Hobby robot building plans, circuits, software and more...
(More Blog Links)
STAMP Parallax.
A
BASIC Stamp microcontroller is a single-board computer that runs the Parallax
PBASIC language interpreter in it's microcontroller. The developer's code is
stored in an EEPROM, which can also be used for data storage. The PBASIC
language has easy-to-use commands for basic I/O, like turning devices on or off,
interfacing with sensors, etc. More advanced commands let the BASIC Stamp module
interface with other integrated circuits, communicate with each other, and
operate in networks. STAMP
In Education
Getting
Started with an Accelerometer. (Forums
Parallax Basic STAMP, electronic chips etc. Parallax)
Acceleration is a measure of how quickly speed changes. Just as a speedometer is a meter that measures speed, an accelerometer is
a meter that measures acceleration. You can use the ability to sense acceleration to measure a variety of things that
are very useful to electronic and robotic projects and designs. More
Forum Links.
nBot
Balancing Robot (Also has quite a number of Robot links). (Also has quite a number of Robot links).
Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG), Robot Links
Low
Cost Gyro-Accelerometer Combo Sensor In building a
balancing robot you need a gyroscope unit and an accelerometer unit in order to
get it to balance.
Corky'z Robotz (A
STAMP
Project)
CTG robotics Configurable Robotics allows the Designer to configure a robot by selecting from a wide range of interface boards and a variety of base designs to meet any task requirement. By using this
configurable system the Designer can quickly assemble a robot and immediately start writing task software.
Ryan Dellanas Robotic Home Page
Autopilot:
Do it yourself UAV (Helecopter)
Building Robots with CoachLab II and Tech Card Materials.
Stephen Paul Linder. Student Projects.
Scottsbots:-
This is a robot I created for the CRB (Columbus Ruby Brigade). It demonstraits some of the basic robotic principles: movement and visual recognition.
Guides - Ubuntu Text-To-Speech TTS
I was also able to install Text To Speech via Festival and Festvox (voices).
It's taken me a few years, but I finally got a webcam working in Ubuntu. Click for the steps I took to get it working. Next, text-to-speech.
I am going to be retiring a robot and upgrading one. The software has stalled pending robot updates.
I was able to take Feynman Jr. and Carnot to CodeMash 2.0.0.8. The conference was awesome and I learned a little about my robots during the event.
A smaller faster lighter version of Feynman6. Same great software, same cool functionality, just in a smaller package and much, much faster...
I have been working on a smaller version of a robot than Feynman 6, called Feynman Jr. I have also begun to refactor my Java API so that it will work with my new robots.
I have started a blog at ScottsBots.Com. Well, it use to be my "Bot Bits" column but since I rarely used that and wanted to start talking more about robots, I decided to shift that to a blog. Enjoy my robot rambles.
For those Basic Stamp 2 users out there. Just use RCTIME with a simple circuit. Depending on the values of your capacitor and resistors you can equate your RCTIME value to your voltage.
Reviews - Intermediate Robot Building by David Cook
If you are looking for a good book that takes you beyond the basics, David Cooks's Intermediate takes you to the next level.
Instructions for installing UBUNTU 6.10 on a VIA EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX. This is a simple 5 step process and you will need the alternate i386 ISO.
To work on Carnot, I decided to go into .Net and create a web server that responds to my serial commands. It's a simple .exe that takes a serial input on the command line and it works great for the SSC (Scott Edwards Servo Controller).
I have decided to create Feynman6 and retire Feynman5. This robot will be taller, have more 80/20 and less wires via a new distribution board with onboard carrier for a BS2.
This will a test platform for Feynman. The main reason for his creation is power supply issues and transportation issues with the current version of Feynman.
There are also several problems with the supported Java APIs, mainly sun has abandon them: Java Communications and Java Media Framework. I talked about my robot Feynman6 at the Central Ohio Java Users group on Tuesday March 13, 2007.
Hi all. I have uploaded the latest code to the sourceforge CVS repository.
host: javarobots
Go to my new online store.
I have started the Columbus Robotics Society. It's the first Robotics Club in Columbus, Ohio.
I have added the JavaRobots project at SourceForge.
This is my new robot site, moved from www.scottpreston.com. I have not moved everything yet, but I will get there by this week-end.
Now that the book is done I am finally going to start reviewing products and creating guides.
If you would like me to review your products or write about something contact me.
Reviews - Lynxmotion SSC-32 Servo Controller
This is a 32 channel serial servo controller with two modes of operation: Group Move & Mini-SSC II emulation.
This is the robot I used for my book. It has pretty much the same components as Feynman3, but is smaller and is more stable.
This is my first robot. It cost less than $10 and took me a week-end to get it working.
This is a real upgrade from Feynman 2. It's also my first robot written in Java.
This is a robot that I did for a COSI training session. I had students login to my website and then control the robot from the internet. It consist of a pan & tilt camera, and an SSC Servo Controller tethered to a power supply and a serial port since it was on 24/7.
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net. For this robot I wanted it to be controlled via a MicroController. I choose the Parallax Basic Stamp 2. I used much of the same parts from the previous robot (TetherBot) but purchased some additional hardware for this chassis.
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net.
This was my first PC Robot. Here I had real sonars, real motors, real processing power!
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net. This robot was the begining of my love and facination with robotics. Here I learned the power of hacking a servo, building my own sensors, and programming and controlling it via PC.
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net.
This robot is just a chassis upgrade of the previous robot (Baby Joe).
I built this with some extra parts from CubeBot. He is powered by 4 AA batteries and an 9V battery for the CubeBot controller board. I put an SRF-04 Sonar on him so he could avoid things as he moved around. But that's all he really did.
Some guys at work were running around the parking lot with these little plastic cars. So one week-end I decided to modify Feynman into and Battle Bot minus the weapon.
This bot actually moved about as fast in the short term as the cars. I did run over one but because of the STAR design of the robot I found it quite limited and poor to maneuver. Something I would correct in later robots. This is the same robot as Feynman 1, but I have modified the chassis. The chassis gave me a little more control over the sonar and provided better proximity detection with the bumpers and Sharp IR sensors.
Robotster
Popular Mechanics:- Looks like the robotic uprising could be headed for the OR after all, as a new feasibility study from Duke University portends to usher in a new era of unmanned surgery. FIRST Robotics Revs Up Science Ed in the Bot Cage (With Video!)
Imagine robotics as a varsity sport. Sixty-two teams from mostly tri-state schools convened to celebrate geeky prowess with all the enthusiasm of the Final Four-right down to the cheerleaders. Their goal: Advance to the national competition in Atlanta. America's patent office might stand on the brink of an open-source revolution, but whatever happened to turning heady science into practical new gadgets? PM resident roboticist Daniel H. Wilson joins us to dream up inventions we might have in our 22nd-century households. BattleBots Returns, but Will 'Science Fair Gone Mad' Grab Geeks?
The robot death match show switches from Comedy Central to ESPN, and brings a competitive engineering spirit along for the ride. But will new rules, a modified arena and a brains-over-babes attitude make it a hit? Every year teams have a different set of obstacles to maneuver with their robots, which they build mostly from a standard kit of parts. As fans of anything that culminates in a botfest, PM editors decided to pop in on a couple of New York City teams (with video). The Toughest, Smartest, Best Terminators of All Time
In honor of Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, our favorite new sci-fi TV show, PM's resident geek offers a thorough evaluation-from intimidation to design and intelligence to destruction-on the franchise's robotic evolution since Arnold. The far-flung consumer robotics industry became more crowded at CES. Will household bots live on as kids' entertainment, their babysitters or simple the family maid? With an identity in reach, the robot market fights to keep up with its own pace of innovation. First Firefighting Robots Deployed, Could Spark Autonomous Dept.
When you have money to burn, robots are the best kind of first responders: the disposable kind. Bomb-squad bots are common, but remote-controlled firefighters are just now in the field. They could save money stop humans from walking into a bomb. Self-driving vehicles were tearing up the streets at the DARPA Urban Challenge, and we've got a report from race-side. Plus, the lowdown on cellphones, news on the state of garbage, war stories from Detroit spy Jim Dunne and a new segment with Mike Allen. How I Survived a Zero-G Robot Operating Room: Extreme Surgeon
PM's resident doc goes head-to-head with new robo-surgeons to help develop unmanned emerg
A Simple Vibrobot.
Build a simple vibrating robot. A hobby robot, well almost.
Twist the ends of the wires from the two motors from together so that each motor will
turn in the opposite direction to each other.
Using the robot for the base allows the robot to print a virtually
unlimited size. Think football field...
Robots - CRaB
Guides - Finally an Ubuntu Webcam
Bot Bits - Feynman Jr. and Carnot at CodeMash
Bot Bits - Been working on new robot and API
Bot Bits - Voltage Measurement for your Robot
Guides - Installing UBUNTU on a Compact Flash
Robots - Feynman 6
Bot Bits - Feynman6 at COJUG
Bot Bits - Added Store
Bot Bits - JavaRobots Project
Bot Bits - Reviews & Stuff
Robots - Feynman 5
Robots - Feynman 3
Robots - Baby Joe 1
Robots - TetherBot
Robots - Fours
Robots - Feynman 2
Autonomous 3D Robot Doc Gets X-Ray Powers With DIY A.I.
Next-Gen Inventions, CIA Gadget Building, Baseball Science and More: Podcast
Students Dig in to FIRST Robotics Race With Next-Gen Builds
Robot Paradox: Automated Gizmos Are Ready for Home Are We?
The Android Effect, Robot Cars, Recycling 2.0 and More: Podcast